Re: Problems with some charsets ??

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On Tuesday 11 December 2007 10:52, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I been asked to migrate a software localisation website from Fedora 9 to
> > Centos 5. Unfortunately much of the content of the site was developed
> > using FrontPage on windows.  I'm having trouble with the display of some
> > characters. For instance the apostrophe in english text and accents in
> > spanish. These are appearing as a black diamond with what appears to be a
> > question mark inside.
>
> To me, this sounds like that you haven't specified the right
> "Content-Type" header. I assume you are using some standard encoding,
> which is totally ok. However, your pages most probably use a
> windows-specific charset (using some extra characters in the 0x80-0x9F
> range).
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

Yep I see the following in several files.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

Thanks I'll have a look at that page.

Tony

>
> You can research the charset of your original pages and set the
> "Content-Type" header accordingly. Getting rid of those special
> characters would be the better solution, though.
>
> Just some ideas. There might be better solutions...
>
> --
> Severin
>
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